Guidance: Calculate your concessionary bus travel reimbursement
A tool to calculate bus travel reimbursement for carrying concession permit holders for free.

Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2024 to 2025 MS Excel Spreadsheet, 540 KB
This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email webmasterdft@dft.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use. Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2023 to 2024 400 KB This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology. Request an accessible format. If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email webmasterdft@dft.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use. DetailsThis tool assists travel concession authorities and bus operators calculate the reimbursement due from concessionary fare schemes for the elderly and disabled.
To calculate and claim bus travel reimbursement for the tax year 2024 to 2025, use the 2024 to 2025 tool with the:
- Reimbursing bus operators for concessionary travel guidance
- Concessionary travel applications form and guidance for applicants
- Research into the reimbursement of concessionary fares
The 2024 to 2025 tool was updated as part of a review of the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS).
The 2023 to 2024 tool is retained for comparison purposes only. The National Archives has copies of previous concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculators.
Published 1 November 2011 Last updated 5 January 2024 + show all updates 5 January 2024 Concessionary bus travel reimbursement calculator 2024 to 2025 added. 23 May 2023 Concessionary travel reimbursement calculator 2023 to 2024 updated to correct duplicated inflation data. 2 December 2022 Added new reimbursement calculator for 2023-2024 29 March 2022 Concessionary travel reimbursement calculator 2022 to 2023 updated with the latest GDP deflator data. 27 January 2022 The VLOOKUP formulas in tab ‘RF Workings’, used to calculate the average fare in 2005 to 2006 prices, have been updated to include the latest CPI index year. 2 December 2021 CPI/GDP deflator and Microsoft Excel macros updated in the calculator. 22 November 2021 Published bus travel reimbursement calculator 2022 to 2023. 27 November 2020Highways England news licensed and reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0
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